Curative care comprises health care contacts during which the principal intent is to relieve symptoms of illness or injury, to reduce the severity of an illness or injury, or to protect against exacerbation and/or complication of an illness or injury that could threaten life or normal function (HC.1 in the SHA classification).

Inclusion

- All components of curative care of illness (including both physical and mental/psychiatric illnesses) or treatment of injury

Source: Statistics Austria, Hospital Discharge Statistics. Data now adjusted to more accuratestatistical allocation of individual hospitals to the groups of short stay hospitals and otherhospitals in the period of 1985-2005.

Public Health Institute of Federation of B&H Public Health Institute of Republic of Srpska. Annualreport of hospitals.Department for Health of Brcko District

Cyprus

General and rural hospitals, public sector only. Day cases are also included as they could not bedisaggregated from hospital admissions.

Czechia

Source: Institute of Health Information and Statistics of CR (IHIS CR). Survey on bed resources ofhealth establishments and their exploitation. Coverage: Data refer to number of hospitalizations inUniversity hospitals and Acute care hospitals. Hospitalized newborns are excluded. Break in time series: Until 1999 data covers only establishments of the Health Sector. From 2000data covers also health establishments of other central organs. Deviation from the definition: Transfers from one department to another one at the same hospitalare considered as two hospitalizations: day-cases of patients treated in bed care departments arenot excluded.

Denmark

Data includes both somatic and psychiatric hospitals.

Estonia

Source: annual reporting, National Institute for Health Development.

Finland

Includes all specialized somatic health care, excluding state hospitals, military and prisonhospitals and inpatient care in primary health care led health care centres. Source: HospitalDischarge Register, THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare).

France

Includes data for French overseas territories. Source: DGOS DREES PMSI-SAE

Georgia

Source: National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia (NCDC) (http://www.ncdc.ge)

Germany

Acute care admissions comprise admissions in general hospitals in all sectors (public,not-for-profit and private). Admissions in mental health hospitals, prevention and rehabilitationhomes and in long-term nursing care facilities are excluded. As of reporting year 2002 the number ofacute care hospital admissions includes day cases. Source: Federal Statistical Office, Hospitalstatistics - basic data

Hungary

Source until 2003: Center for Health Care Information (GYOGYINFOK). The data is the case number ofdepartment discharges. Source from 2004: National Institute for Strategic Health Research (ESKI) andthe data is the case number for hospital discharge, rather than case number for departmentdischarge.

Iceland

All discharges from acute care hospitals as defined in indicator 992760. From 1999 includes alldischarges with LOS of 18 days or less (includes discharges where the diagnosis is missing orinvalid, i.e. not based on main diagnosis).Newborns are excluded (discharges with the Z38 code werecounted based on principal/main diagnosis and then subtracted from the total number of discharges).Source: The Directorate of Health / Ministry of Health and Social Security. Break in series in 2008 due to the fact that data in the National Patient Discharge Register hasbeen updated /corrected.

Until 2008 newborns (Z38) have been included. This will be corrected next year along with othercorrections.

Ireland

Source: Health Service Executive. Data prior to 2006 comes from the Department of Health andChildren. Figures refer to the number of in-patients, excluding day cases, who were discharged fromor died in publicly funded acute hospitals. Discharges from private short-stay hospitals are notincluded.

Israel

Number of acute care admissions. Hospitalizations without overnight stay are not included since1994. Source: Department of Health Information, Ministry of Health.

Italy

Source: Ministry of Health. Admissions are referred to hospitals under indicator 992760. Clinicaldata gathered in the hospital discharges database are coded with the following versions: until 2005with ICD9-CM version 1997, from 2006 to 2008 with ICD9-CM version 2002, since 2009 with the ICD9-CMversion 2007.

Figures relate to the main acute public hospital. Source: Hospital Activity Analysis (HAA)

Montenegro

Data are for discharges (Stationary medical centres are included).

Netherlands

Breaks in series: 2002 and later includes healthy new born infants if mother was inpatient. Sourcefor 2006 and later is annual reports, Social Accountint and National Medical Registration. The datacover all admissions for 24 hour care in general, university and short-stay specialized hospitals.Excluded are all babies born in hospitals. Statistics Netherlands: Statistics of intramural healthcare; National Medical Registration.

Norway

Number of discharges.

Portugal

Source of data: National Statistical Institute Coverage: National

Russian Federation

Day cases are included.

Serbia

Source: Institute of Public Health of Serbia.

Slovakia

The number of admissions includes admissions in hospitals of acute care except of admissions inspecial departments designated for psychiatric care, long term care and rehabilitation

Slovenia

Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana 1996.

Spain

Number of discharges in general hospitals and especial hospitals with short-stay. Source up to 1996:National Statistics Institute and Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs. Statistics on HealthEstablishments Providing Inpatient Care. Source from 1996: Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs.(www.msc.es/)

Sweden

Source: National Patient Register NBHW.

Switzerland

The data is restricted to inpatient cases (exclusion of day cases). Source of data: FSO FederalStatistical Office, Neuchatel; Medical Statistics of Hospitals; yearly census. Coverage: Full coverage of hospitals; sufficient (nearly full) coverage of inpatient and day casessince 2002. Due to a modification of the legislation, day cases are not collected in 2009 anymore. Deviation from the definition: Estimation method: Discharges without a valid ICD-code are not accounted for (negligible). Break in time series: The gradual change of diagnosis classification since 2008 from ICD-10 WHO toICD-10 GM (German Modification) may lead to breaks for some categories.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Source: Institute for Public Health (IPH).

Turkey

Source: General Directorate of Curative Services. Method: Total number of hospital admissions;covers the Ministry of Health, university and private hospitals. Newborns are included. Admissionsto acute hospitals, mental health hospitals, physical treatment, and rehabilitation hospitals werenot included.

Coverage: Data relates to NHS discharges in acute care hospitals. Data may not be complete asfurther submissions may be received at a later date. Figures are based on completed hospital spells& diagnosis at discharge, with the exception of Scottish maternity data which is episode based.

Estimation Method: Scotland could not provide 2010 data due to data completeness issues and so thisfigure has been estimated using 2009 data for Scotland. This figure will be revised when 2010 datafor Scotland is available.

Break in Time Series: Data from 2000 onwards is not comparable with data from prior to this. Thisis due to work conducted to improve compliance with definitions and consistency of methodologiesacross the four parts of the UK 2010 - All data is financial year data with the exception of Scotland whose data is calendar year.